Furness, William Henry

D.D. (Harvard, 1847), Unitarian; b. in Boston, Ma ., April 20, 1802; graduated from Harvard College, 1820; studied theology, and was ordained pastor of the First Unitarian Congregational Church, Philadelphia, Penn., Jan. 12, 1825, and held the office until his retirement in 1875. He was a leading abolitionist, and is the author of Remarks on the Four Gospels, Philadelphia, 1835, London, 1837; Jesus and his Biographers, 1838; Domestic Wor- A History of Jesus, Philadelphia and London, 1850, new ed. 1853; Discourses, 1855; Thoughts on the Life and Character of Jesus of Nazareth, Boston, 1859; Veil partly uplifted, 1864; The Unconscious Truth of the Four Gospels, Philadelphia, 1868; Jesus, 1871; The Power of Spirit manifest in Jesus of Nazareth, 1877; TJie Story of the Resurrection told once more, 1885; Verses: Translations and Hymns, Boston, 1886; numerous discourses, mostly on abolition, both in pamphlet form and in the Pennsylvania Freeman and Anti-slavery Standard. He has also translated from the German Schubert's Mirror of Nature, 1849; Gems of German Verse, 1851; Julius, and other Tales, 1856; and Schenkel's Character of Jesus portrayed, Boston, 1866, 2 vols. He edited The Diadem, an annual published in Philadelphia, 1845-47.